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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

DIG’s son speaks of assault

The condition of the son of DIG Ravi Waidyalankara, Asela Waidyalankara
is currently reported to be stable and he is undergoing treatment at a
leading private hospital in Colombo.

Asela Waidyalankara, son of
DIG Ravi Waidyalankara speaking said two Police officers
in uniform who were on duty and had intervened during the assault were
also allegedly assaulted by the gang which comprised the son of Minister
Maithripala Sirisena.

Police sources in Kalkudah confirmed that two Police officers who were on duty at the beach in uniform were assaulted.

Leading
Criminal Lawyers speaking said the Criminal Procedure
Code and the Penal Code was very clear that the above did not conform to offenses bailable by the Police and the suspects must be produced
before a Magistrate.

The gang of 13 which included the son of the
Minister had been released on Sunday night on Police bail without being
produced before a Magistrate.

Refuting allegations of prompting
the assault, Asela said he was currently nursing a shoulder injury and
would had never got involved in an altercation

“Any ordinary person
would know that they can’t take on 15 men. I’m nursing a shoulder injury
and would never have gotten into an altercation. It’s irrational to
even think of fighting 15 men alone,” he said.

“While they were
assaulting me, there were two Police officers on duty close by, I ran to
them and urged them to help me and they shielded me and in the process
they were also assaulted,” Asela Waidyalankara said.

Speaking
further in his hospital bed, the soft spoken telecom executive said that
he urged the gang not to take photographs with his wife in the
background which prompted the brutal assault.

“I just came from a
boat ride and went to the room to keep our belongings. As I was coming
back I noticed about 15 people standing there, all of them were drunk
and one person had removed his swimming trunk and displayed himself to
my wife with another guy taking pictures. I’m also an amateur
photographer and I knew what they were doing,” he said.

Speaking
further, Waidyalankara said that, the gang had then surrounded him and
his wife who had rushed to his help was also assaulted.“I was with my family and didn’t want any altercation so I went up to them and told them very politely.

These
are the exact words I used “Machang you took some pictures of my wife
if you can show them to me and delete them, you’re here to have a good
time and I’m here to have a good time, let’s not spoil it”.

Then a
few more people started surrounding me and hurling abuses at me. I was
shoved and at that point they started assaulting me, my wife who came to
save me also was assaulted,” a shaken Waidyalankara said.

Eyewitness
earlier confirmed that the gang had been heavily
intoxicated and were acting in a lewd and obstructing mannerThe
victim was then admitted to the Batticaloa Teaching Hospital and was
rushed to the Intensive Care Unit. Sources said there was severe
political pressure on the Hospital to release the victim.

He was later transferred to a leading hospital in Colombo.

Sources
meanwhile alleged that Minister Maithripala Sirisena escorted the gang
including his son to the Chavakachcheri Hospital where the Judicial
Medical Officer had stated issued a certificate to the effect that the
group had not been under the Influence of Liquor.

Eyewitnesses to
the incident speaking said that the group was under
the influence of liquor and this was also confirmed by the resort in
which the two groups had been staying at.

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